

Rendering – Houdini ships with its native and powerful rending engine Mantra, but the Houdini Indie licence (Houdini version for indie developers) supports other 3rd party rendering engines such as: Renderman, Octane, Arnold, Redshift, V-ray, Maxwell(soon).Lighting – node-based shader authoring, lighting and re-lighting in an IPR viewer.Dynamics – Rigid Body Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Wire Dynamics, Cloth Simulation, Crowd simulation.Animation – Keyframed animation and raw channel manipulation (CHOPs), motion capture support.Modeling – All standard geometry entities including Polygons, (Hierarchical) NURBS/Bézier Curves/Patches & Trims, Metaballs.Houdini covers all the major areas of 3D production, including these: SideFX also publishes a partially limited version called Houdini Apprentice, which is free of charge for non-commercial use. Powerful rendering engine and much more to explore.Intelligent and precise shading features.Deal with the clothing, body dynamics, and water flow.Lighting with intelligent shading features.Camera gestures support for creating unique scenes.


Keyframe based animation CHOP and simulation of the dynamic materials including the body dynamics, water flow, clothing, and various others make it a reliable solution for creating animations. It delivers lightning fast speed and ultimate level of performance as well as supports Python for scripting the scripts. Moreover, this powerful application comes up with a variety of customizations and settings and provides a complete set of tools for handling any kind of animations.
